Performance Posts

Use for performance listings. This is an archive of events that have appeared in my performance calendar.

St. Matthew Passion

When Felix Mendelssohn’s grandmother presented the young composer with a manuscript copy of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, it had a profound effect on him, and he set about preparing a performance of the work, which took place in Berlin in 1829. This was the first time St. Matthew Passion had been performed in 100 years,

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Bach Cantata Series

Bach Cantata Series: Both Sides of Bach (Nasher Museum of Art) Duke Chapel is pleased to partner with the Nasher Museum to present Both Sides of Bach, the final concert in this season’s Bach Cantata Series. The program includes two of J.S. Bach’s secular Cantatas: the delightful Coffee Cantata, Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (BWV 211), and Cantata 213, Laßt

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